Giant Bomb's Jeff Grubb is almost always reliable when it comes to the timing of Sony's State of Play events, and he reckons there'll be one around 24th September, according to comments he made on his Game Mess Mornings podcast. This would align with previous statements he's made, all pointing to some kind of late September broadcast.
Tokyo Game Show is set to get underway on 26th September, and we know Death Stranding 2: On the Beach will feature prominently, so the timing makes sense. Presumably there'll be other announcements from third-party partners, including potentially a new Resident Evil from Capcom, which has also been rumored for a while.
Crucially, though, Grubb notes this will be a State of Play, and a not a full-blown PS Showcase. It means that, just like in 2022, Sony will likely go another full calendar year without a big E3-style blowout.
"So, a year goes by with no PS Showcase where it's like, 'Here's all our big stuff,'" Grubb teased. "So people are going to set expectations low again, and it's like, 'Man, do you have Ghost of Tsushima to talk about yet? Is there going to be a Naughty Dog game this generation?' It's beginning to look like it's taking them even longer than they expected to get these games out, and that's hurting them in instances like the PS5 Pro where they try to make a case to justify the system but they don't have anything to go along with it."
Sony has generally been keeping its cards close to its chest this generation: Astro Bot was announced and released within four months, so it doesn't necessarily mean big games aren't coming. But PlayStation fans are understandably agitated: they want to know what big ticket first-party projects there are to look forward to, beyond the aforementioned Death Stranding 2: On the Beach and Marvel's Wolverine.
Let's hope this upcoming State of Play is a good one, and not another let down like recent broadcasts have been.
